Part 2 Dwarfs A Go go

After getting Big Gym's... directions... you all start to making to a small lake that feeds in to a Volcanic rock field. There seems to be a small mining operation on one the far bank. The band shows up at dusk and the dwarfs should be out and about soon.

Jack: sighs and lights a cigarette "maybe i should try diplomacy this time instead of drinkin and hitting things like normal..."

Dana eyes him, then shakes her head. "Look, if they are dwarves, they'll probably get along best with a drinker. Just don't go in guns blazing, all right? Who knows, it could be the little blue blighters who are actually the culprits."

Jack gives Dana a smirk " why do ye think i made that gun with wrout iron rounds? i heard they don't like that so much"

Alessandro: Wearing a pair of golden goggles on the top of his head and hefting a small leather satchel. "So we want to try and talk our way in? I can dig it, assuming there's anything to talk our way into."

Satoshi: walking while holding his gps " I hope they listen"

Dana shrugs. "It's not a problem if they don't listen. If Jacky-boy here is as good at shooting as he is at drinking, 'tween him and my bow -- we'll be just fine. However, before we do head in: which of you men know how to spin a tale and play nice with others?"

Jack " well there is always option two" jack takes in a deep breath and yells " Free BOOZE!" at the top of his lungs and heads round to the back of his truck to get said free booze

A few leery faces looks over at the group... they are the oddest looking dwarfs you all have ever seen They look like little men craved out of dirt and moss, with jade and other stone bits as clothing... they look a little like they are south american

Alessandro: "Well they don't exactly look like what I was imagining." I wave at them and motion them over with a drinking motion and point at the truck.

Dana quirks an eyebrow at the yell but stands to one stand, allowing the ...dwarves a free line to the free booze if they felt like approaching.

Satoshi: steps aside "shoulden't we have talked about this plan"

Dana: "I thought we were, but.. live and learn."

Jack: starts setting bottles of various hard liquors out on the ground and leans against his truck taking a drink when he is finished " doesn't it seem like getting drunk IS the plan lately?"

The 'dwarfs' slow walk over... seeming to ignore the booze and seem to group around Alessandro they all start to speak at once... in broken spanish mixed with old aztec [?]

Alessandro: "Whoa guys, slow down. One at a time please." [In Spanish]

Jack: " wow the one language i DON'T understand at all...i should consider getting a Spanish to English dictionary or something...." he takes another long drag on his cig and watches the commotion

"Yes OH master" one of the 'dwarfs' starts to talk " what brings you to our humble mine?" [in spanish/aztec]

Alessandro: "We heard there may be some people in trouble here, people being forced to work for others against their will." [In Spanish]

"No master... it is just us and the northern ones here, we mine out the basalt and Obsidian and the northern ones make them in to weapons for the war" the talking dwarf says

Alessandro: "Who needs weapons, who are the 'Northern Ones'?" [In Spanish]

"For Your Parents, sisters and warriors... I do not really know they just came and told us the they would make new weapons for us"

Alessandro: "Well that would explain why he sent me here" [In English] "Has there been anything odd happening lately, like that loud noise I heard earlier today?: [In Spanish]

"From the Human town there is a hum... but it does not come from here in comes from the ground"

At the cry of booze, a woman emerges from behind some rocks or trees or whatever she happens to be hiding behind. Reagan eyes the band for a moment until she sees the bottles, then starts heading in their direction. She calls out in English, "Thank Gods you're here. I was afraid I'd never find a drink in this joint."

Dana turns her attention from the jabbering dwarves and towards the woman. "Ah, then it's my pleasure to grant you reprieve from lack of a good, stiff drink?" She asks, chuckling as she pick sup one of the larger bottles to hand out to her. "I take it you're not with the little ones?"

Reagan takes the bottle from Dana and checks it over. She likes to know what she's drinking, at least. "With? Maybe. I've been here for a week or so, watching them do their thing. So not really, but Dad says go watch some dwarves, so I take his advice." That said, she opens it up and drinks more than a little..

Jack: "careful with that...it's damn near 90% alcohol...." jack walks over to dana and the newcomer holding a smaller bottle

Satoshi: Walks over to her " hello i am Satoshi Hato nice to meet you"

"Reagan. Likewise." Reagan takes another couple of good swigs before she turns back to Satoshi and Dana. She doesn't look nearly as affected as she should be by the drink. "Good stuff. Anyway, what brings you here? It's kind of the arse end, which is good if you're a miner. Not so good if you like people who can carry on a decent conversation."

Soon the Hum begins to start... and up out of the mine comes about 5 normal dwarfs being chased by a Giant Centapede

Alessandro: To the elementals... "RUN!" [In Spanish] I pull out a large folding knife from to that the dwarfs scatter...

The hum might be comming from the bug.

Within a heartbeat, Dana's whipped around from a jovial introduction and drinks to face the overly-large multi-legged creature. In her hands is a dark-wood bow that you know wasn't there moments before. With a practiced eye, she pulls out an arrow from a quiver tucked underneath her jacket and nocks the bow, she doesn't release just yet, but studies the creature for the weakest part.

The 'Bug' Rushes back and forth trying to snap at any thing it can... finaly bit bites in to one of the spanish dwarfs, the dwarf turns to loose graves under the bite leaving nothing to eat, mad the Bug looks for real prey

Satoshi: looks quickly for somthing to use as a weapon such as a small tree branch or somthing similar; and he finds a Basalt club that one of the dwarfs dropped in a panic, he picks it up to use.

"Holy fuck," Reagan mutters and sets the bottle down. She glances at the other Scions, then calmly moves over near Satoshi and Alessandro, ready to approach the thing but not about to charge in without backup.

jack hops to the top of his rig and pulls his hammer out of the straps on his jacket then does a running leap hoping to bring the hammer down on the centepede's head in mid jump; Jacks Hammer just taps the bugs head

Alessandro: "Bug, you just ate my family's little rock mining boulder dude! WTF!?" I leap into the air and land in the middle of the centipede's "back". Giving it a punch to the back with little fussIt's

clear that there's no true and defined weak spot on this giant multi-legged menace -- on the outside. Dana waits, holding her ground until the bug's pincers open wide then she unleashes her first arrow, followed up by a second one dead center behind the first; the arrows fly true and spear in to the bugs eyes leaving terrble wounds... its seems on its last legs

Reagan pushes up her sleeves and darts to the centipede's side. It has quite a lot of blind spots, naturally, but that armor's troublesome. Reagan pulls back, takes a breath, and rams her fist into the bug's side to see if she can punch a hole in the thing. Sadly all she does is dent the carpace

Satoshi: simpley atacks the bug with the club, sadly the club attack misses

The Bug still moving with gore pouring out of it face, Crawls up and turns about... a stream of acidic Bile Spashes over Jack, Alessandro Satoshi and Reagan... Alessandro and Satoshi spin out of the way and the acid passes just baerly over reagan head. Jacks still clinging to its back so it miss him as well...

A third arrow is nocked onto Dana's bow as the creature turns and spews the corroisve liquid over the others. She lets loose another two-prong barrage of arrows, not truly bothering with aim, but hoping that her instinct alone would guide the arrows.

Alessandro: Gripping the knife he delivers an upward slash to the creatures partially exposed underside.

Dana Arrows Dwn the beast just as Alessandro starts to cuts out its hearts and Jack pulls his gun and fires into the back of its head.

Dana waits until the thing slumps in it's death throes before she leaves her combat stance and walks over to the massive creature. "Hmm, I wonder if it's venom can be corked for later." She looks to the others. "Are you guys all right?"

Jack smiles and hops off the now dead centipede "yeah im good but next time im bringing a flamethrower" after saying that jack kicks the dead centipede in the head

Satoshi: "im fine"You guys come to a conculsion that it was not poisen but gastric acid it was spitting at you... but its shell could be made in to a few sheilds.

The leader of the Normal dwarfs comes up to you all and tips his helmet to you and says "Thank you kindly... but what aer youall do out here?"

Alessandro: "We were informed by some small blue men that there may be some sort of slave labor being used to work the mines, figured it might be connected to The Hum and decided to check it out."

The dwarf blinks" Wha slaves? The odd dwarf where hear first and do most of the diggin yea but the blood gods have paying us huge sums of gold to make mordern weapons for em... the Obsidion Chainsaw isn't work out so well yet... but the others stuff comming along fine... Wait little blue men? those stupid bastards! The think we are all evil because be don't keep any booze around, I'm the founder of the Dwarven Temperance movement you know. The Hum... its comming from deep... and I mean deep underground... I think it has something to do with them thar bugs."

Jack: " bugs...that have acid for blood... what the HELL are we fighting anyways...Xenomorphs or somethin!?" he spits on the bug and starts working on removing a piece of it's carapace

Alessandro: "Let me guess, some kind of hive down there?"

"I don't know much about a Hive... but there are alot of bugs. maggots, centipede and locust... a few odd snakes too. The maggots burrow in to living this and turn them in to some sort of zombie."

Dana makes a face. "Lovely. It sounds like a flamethrower will be a perfect weapon ...if we could find one."

Satoshi: "this is trouble do you need any help?"

Alessandro: "Satoshi's got the right idea, there's a reason we were all sent to this podunk little town. This pretty much screams familial initiation."

Jack: *sighs* "so i guess ill be whipping up some flame throwers... well i have enough booze for fuel...."


 * and End ***

party gains 5 xp and enough bug armor to make about 5 riot sheilds